Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood, Willie Morris, Yoknapatawpha Press, 2009, 0916242684, 9780916242688, 143 pages. GOOD OLD BOY: A DELTA BOYHOOD is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote GOOD OLD BOY when his son David, age ten, asked, "What was it like to grow up in Mississippi?" Morris's response turned into a timeless story of growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends and playing practical jokes and having adventures. GOOD OLD BOY is recommended for sixth through ninth grade..

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Willie Morris an exhaustive annotated bibliography and a biography, Jack Bales, Jul 30, 2006, Biography & Autobiography, 393 pages. "The book's principal focus is Morris' literary legacy, which includes works such as Good Ole Boy, My Dog Skip, and My Two Oxfords. Two annotated bibliographies--one for Morris ....

The Lifetime Adventures of a 95 Year Old Boy , Eddy Hill, Jul 21, 2011, , 288 pages. This is the autobiography of a 95 year old man. Eddy Hill has memories going back to before three years of age and moving forward to the twenty-first century. It looks at his ....

Conversations with Willie Morris , Willie Morris, Jack Bales, 2000, Biography & Autobiography, 207 pages. In this first collection of interviews and profiles devoted to author Willie Morris, Bales compiles 25 fascinating and incisive conversations (some never before published) with ....

The Courting of Marcus Dupree , Willie Morris, Oct 1, 1992, Biography & Autobiography, 463 pages. At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular ....

A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season , Willie Morris, Apr 1, 1999, Poetry, 32 pages. Celebrated author Willie Morris and distinguished artist Barry Moser join in a poetic tribute to children’s baseball..

A history of educational legislation in Mississippi from 1798 to 1860 , William Henington Weathersby, 1921, , 204 pages. .

George Bailey; A Tale of New York Mercantile Life , Pseud Oliver Oldboy, Jan 10, 2012, , 302 pages. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books ....

History of education in Mississippi , Edward Mayes, 1899, , 290 pages. .

Terrains of the heart and other essays on home , Willie Morris, 1981, Humor, 265 pages. .

A State Education System at Work Report of an Investigation of the Intellectual Status and Educational Progress of Pupils in the Elementary and High Schools and Freshmen in the Colleges, Public and Private, of Mississippi, Together with Recommendations Relating to the Modifications of Educational Procedure in the State, Michael Vincent O'Shea, 1927, Academic achievement, 368 pages. .

In Search of Willie Morris The Mercurial Life of a Legendary Writer and Editor, Larry L. King, 2006, Biography & Autobiography, 353 pages. A wise, intimate, and moving look at the famously talented and complex Willie Morris, editor of Harper's magazine in the 1960s, conveys the energy and activity of his years at ....

Bodies & soul musical memoirs, Al Young, 1981, Music, 129 pages. Interweaves personal experiences with commentary on the American music scene and intimate personal portraits of performers including Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Bessie Smith ....

Shifting Interludes Selected Essays, Willie Morris, 2002, Biography & Autobiography, 209 pages. A collection of eloquent, sometimes hard-hitting essays by one of the South's most beloved writers covers forty years in Morris's career as a journalist and columnist. (Literature).

The Looker on , Neil Munro, Jan 1, 2009, Biography & Autobiography, 308 pages. Journalist, novelist and poet Neil Munro was born in the beautiful town of Inveraray, Argyllshire in 1863. He was educated in the Parish School and became a clerk to the local ....

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood is a novel for young readers about a boy's adventures growing up in post-WWII Mississippi. Author Willie Morris, then editor of Harper's Magazine in New York, wrote Good Old Boy when his son David, age ten, asked, What was it like to grow up in the South? Morris s response turned into a timeless story of growing up in a small Southern town, Yazoo City in the early 1950s, roaming the town with his friends and playing practical jokes and having adventures. Good Old Boy is supplemental reading at many schools for sixth through ninth grade.

Though young readers won't recognize Morris as a writer, this story of his youth is wonderful.It starts with a witch, moves on to sports- his dog is on the team and then goes to more mayhem with haunted houses and robbers. There are wonderful characters like Bubba- a modern day Huckelberry Finn and Rivers Applewhite- the only girl who hangs with the boys. there are pranks- like tricking the boys from the next town with twins running a race. Most of all its a look at a time when people listened to baseball games on the radio and had time to explore the woods rather than cyberworlds.

He tells of his childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, with all his childhood friends, including Spit McGee (the forty's Huckleberry Finn). He recalls their baseball games, football games, hunting on the Delta with his father, practical jokes played on anyone and everyone. He recounts the story of the Witch of Yazoo and the broken chain. One of the best and most humorous of his stories is the tale of the haunted house and what the boys found in it one dark and stormy night.

I am from Yazoo City so this book has always been one of my favorites. I saw Willie Morris at a car wash in Jackson, MS not long before his death. I was shy and didn't want to bother him, so I didn't introduce myself and have a chat. I would have loved to have spoken with him. Now I regret my shyness - should've taken the chance. Yazoo City has an enduring quality and charm that shows in all his books and stories. No matter where I live, it will always be home. There is a great feeling of safety and warmth whenever I drive into the city limits. It is a feeling of home. Not many people have that sense of home these days. I feel blessed to have grown up there.

Not a romantic love, but one of life and that of friends and animals that make an individual's life so enjoyable. In spite of the sadness as things cease to exist the continuous of adventures completes the sheer joy of living. Finding the positive and appreciating what you have and how to make the most of it is perhaps not an art, but a necesity in fulfilment William Weaks "Willie" Morris (November 29, 1934 — August 2, 1999), was an American writer and editor born in Jackson, Mississippi, though his family later moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, which he immortalized in his works of prose. Morris' trademark was his lyrical prose style and reflections on the American South, particularly the Mississippi Delta. In 1967 he became the youngest editor of Harper's Magazine. He wrote several works of fiction and non-fiction, including his seminal book North Toward Home, as well as My Dog Skip.

Morris' parents moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi when he was just six months old. Yazoo City figures prominently in much of Morris' writing. After graduating as valedictorian of Yazoo City high school, Morris traveled to Austin to attend the University of Texas at Austin. He became a member of Delta Tau Delta international fraternity, where he has a room named after him in the chapter house.

His senior year in college, Morris was elected editor of the university's student newspaper, the award-winning The Daily Texan. His scathing editorials against segregation, censorship and state officials' collusion with oil and gas interests soon earned him the enmity of university administrators, particularly from the university's Board of Regents. As an example of the animosity, Morris wrote in North Toward Home that the university did not acknowledge his award of a Rhodes Scholarship with even as much as a letter of congratulation. Although Morris' contribution to the university continues to go unrecognized, in 1997 The Daily Texan began honoring each year's best editorial writer with "The Willie Morris Award for Editorial Excellence."

Morris graduated in 1957 and began studying History at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1958 he married Celia Buchan of Houston, and in 1959 they had a son, David Rae. The next year they returned to the United States, where he became the editor of The Texas Observer, a liberal bi-weekly newspaper. The marriage lasted 10 years, and Celia Morris writes about Willie and their divorce in her fourth book, "Finding Celia's Place."

In 1963, Morris joined the staff of Harper's Magazine as Associate Editor, and became Editor-in-Chief four years later. On publication, North Toward Home became a best-selling book and earned the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for non-fiction. It is an autobiographical account of his childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, early adulthood in Austin, Texas, and eventual move from the South to New York City. Critics cited the author for his tender reflections on Southern smalltown culture, and for the tone of those alienated expatriate Southerners who move north, but retain nostalgia for the South they left behind.

As the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of an influential literary magazine, Morris helped to launch the careers of notable writers such as and .[1] But the Cowles family, owners of Harper's Magazine, was perplexed by the content Morris published: longer articles of overtly liberal sentiment that offended more cautious advertisers. Amidst falling ad sales, the Cowles family expressed their dissatisfaction with Editor-in-Chief Willie Morris until he ultimately resigned under pressure in 1971.

Following his resignation from Harper's, Morris moved to Bridgehampton, Long Island, where he lived for many years before returning to the South. During that time he became close friends with fellow writer , author of "", and Jones's wife Gloria. Later, when his friend lay dying in Southampton Hospital of heart failure, Willie Morris took notes from Jones about his work-in-progress, the novel "Whistle," which Morris finished for his friend Jones.

In 1980, Morris returned to his native state to be writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi where he encouraged a new generation of Mississippi writers including , who acknowledged auditing Morris's writing classes. One of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood was made into a TV movie for Public Television by Disney and PBS Wonderworks and later re-titled The River Pirates in 1988 not far from where Morris lived.It starred Richard Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dixie Wade, Ryan Francis, Caryn West and Richard E. Council. In 2000, My Dog Skip, another of Morris' books and an unofficial prequel to the earlier film, was made into a major motion picture starring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson and Kevin Bacon. (Morris had previously written for Reader's Digest a profile of his dog 'Pete,' whom he had adopted while living in Bridgehampton, New York. When Morris left Bridgehampton, he took Pete, who had formerly belonged to the owner of a local service station and whom Willie referred to as 'the Mayor of Bridgehampton,' back to Mississippi with him. Later, after Pete's death, Morris requested and received permission from the Episcopal church for a burial of Pete within the same cemetery where Morris himself would later be buried.) Morris died of a heart attack just before the movie debuted, after seeing an advance screening of the film and praising it.

Willie Morris is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Yazoo City, close to the "grave" of the fictitious Witch of Yazoo, a character from one of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood. In life he counted among his friends a wide circle, including Yazoo City childhood friends, well-known writers like Winston Groom (Forrest Gump'), William Styron (Sophie's Choice), John Knowles (A Separate Peace), James Dickey (Deliverance) and Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man), as well as students in his writing classes in Oxford. He was known as an unerring mimic with a warm sense of humor and a sense of the absurd.

Willie Morris, who spent his childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, became the youngest editor of Harper's magazine in 1967. He published several books about his childhood in the South (including "My Dog Skip") as well as his years in New York ("New York Days") where he befriended "William Styron, David Halberstam, Woody Allen, Bobby Kennedy, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, George Plimpton, Leonard Bernstein, and the other leading figures of the time."

Willie Morris is the author of "North Toward Home", "New York Days", "My Dog Skip", "My Cat Spit McGee", and numerous other works of fiction & nonfiction. As the imaginative and creative editor of "Harper's Magazine" in the 1960s, he published such writers as William Styron, Gay Talese, David Halberstam, and Norman Mailer. He was a major influence in changing our postwar literary & journalistic history. He died in August 1999 at the age of sixty-four.

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For over forty years, Willie Morris faced head-on the controversial issues of his generation. As the brazen young editor of the Daily Texan at the University of Texas in Austin, he quickly incurred the wrath of the institution's Board of Regents for his blistering attacks on segregation and censorship. While at the helm of the widely read Texas Observer, he courageously reported events that the mainstream press seldom bothered to cover, such as unsanitary and hazardous conditions in nursing homes, illiteracy, the social ineffectiveness of the death penalty, racial discrimination, and the political shenanigans of Texas legislators. As the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of Harper's, Morris aggressively transformed the stodgy, patriarchal magazine into one of the country's most exciting and influential periodicals.

“I have no alternative to words,” Morris occasionally replied when asked about his far-reaching career. And driven by social conscience, he continued to speak out on matters that concerned him after he resigned his editor's position and left New York City, at various times writing with outrage, with humor, with sadness, and with affection — but always with passion and candor.

In the course of his literary career, Morris attained national prominence as a journalist, nonfiction writer, novelist, essayist, autobiographer, and news commentator. Although one of the South's principal spokespersons, he did not consider himself a southern writer. “I am an American writer who happens to have come from the South,” he often emphasized. “I've tried to put the South into the larger American perspective.”

And he began doing so at an early age. William Weaks Morris, a sixth-generation Mississippian, was born on November 29, 1934, in the state capital of Jackson. When he was six months old his parents moved to Yazoo City, a small town located, as he writes in North Toward Home, “on the edge of the delta, straddling that memorable divide where the hills end and the flat land begins.” His family members were all storytellers, and he grew up in the tradition of recounting tales and handing them down from one generation to the next.

After he graduated from high school in 1952 as valedictorian of his class, he left the familiar Mississippi Delta for the University of Texas in Austin, where he became editor of the student newspaper, the Daily Texan, in his senior year. Immersing himself in journalism and books and reading “in a great undigested fury,” he became editor his senior year. He soon incurred the wrath of the university's Board of Regents for his scathing attacks on segregation and censorship, and especially on the governor and other legislators for their collusion with the “twin deities” — the oil and gas interests that ran the state. “A student editor in Texas could blaspheme the Holy Spirit and the Apostle Paul,” Morris wryly commented a decade later, “but irreverence stopped at the well-head.” Refusing either to resign or to alter his blistering editorials, the outspoken Morris eventually, if perhaps begrudgingly, earned the respect of University officials, politicians, faculty, and students. http://edufb.net/275.pdf http://edufb.net/565.pdf http://edufb.net/303.pdf http://edufb.net/79.pdf http://edufb.net/20.pdf http://edufb.net/387.pdf http://edufb.net/16.pdf http://edufb.net/375.pdf http://edufb.net/425.pdf http://edufb.net/575.pdf http://edufb.net/568.pdf http://edufb.net/572.pdf http://edufb.net/89.pdf http://edufb.net/538.pdf http://edufb.net/65.pdf http://edufb.net/393.pdf http://edufb.net/147.pdf http://edufb.net/100.pdf http://edufb.net/422.pdf http://edufb.net/476.pdf http://edufb.net/230.pdf http://edufb.net/445.pdf